Feature For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb. The Trinity test, in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, marked the beginning of the atomic age. One manifestation of that moment was the contamination of metals manufactured after that date – as airborne particulates left over from Trinity and other nuclear weapons permeated the environment. Everyone participating in genera...